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| Topic | World rejoices as grumpy cat and her shity attitude is dead |
| s0nicfan 05/17/19 4:02:16 PM #3 | Aren't Onion articles usually a bit more whimsical? Even as a joke this comes off as bitter. --- "History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz |
| Topic | Epic is at it again! |
| s0nicfan 05/17/19 3:57:05 PM #35 | While Epic is taking the hit with regard to its own profits for that deal, it is creating a scenario where the publishers cannot compete on other platforms for the same games (Bloodlines 2 is not an Epic exclusive). Ah, there it is. The cynical board room nugget that explains why they're doing this. --- "History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz |
| Topic | SATs to assign "adversity score" to reflect social backgrounds |
| s0nicfan 05/17/19 3:33:58 PM #173 | COVxy posted... s0nicfan posted...The context and point of the article is that without extra tutoring and special support these kids bomb out.
Yes, part of the message is "be nicer to your students" but his study also worked because he created a special small class of low income kids and gave them all advisers and peer mentors to provide extra support. We're also talking about boosting the graduation rate up from 5%. Even if he quadrupled it using his approach, you'd STILL be in a situation where for every kid you helped, you'd be dooming 4 to a lifetime of debt. EDIT: and just to be clear, I'm not saying these kids don't deserve support. I'm saying the current approach doesn't work, and this proposed plan of giving them adversity scores doesn't help either. Jamming more poor performers into high end schools doesn't help anyone other than the people who want to pat themselves on the back and tell themselves they're good people. --- "History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz |
| Topic | study: men are afraid of interacting with women because of metoo |
| s0nicfan 05/17/19 3:14:59 PM #12 | I love how the takeaway of the Facebook COO in that article is that somehow men are even more at fault now than before. --- "History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz |
| Topic | SATs to assign "adversity score" to reflect social backgrounds |
| s0nicfan 05/17/19 2:45:56 PM #170 | COVxy posted... s0nicfan posted...COVxy posted...Kyle1022 posted...Don't have Facebook anymore so no idea and not really relevant to my point I used that source so that people wouldn't accuse me of making up the statistics or accusing me of source bias. The context and point of the article is that without extra tutoring and special support these kids bomb out. Given that this is a topic about admissions, not restructuring universities to support kids, I didn't think it was relevant. But whether you like it or not the statistic is real, and this is the reality of University admissions. You can continue to ignore it because you don't like the conclusion, but that doesn't make it go away. --- "History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz |
| Topic | "We need a Space Force to defend ourselves from Space Pirates" |
| s0nicfan 05/17/19 2:10:52 PM #14 | darkmaian23 posted... s0nicfan posted...We absolutely need a space force, Because if as a precursor to war an enemy Nation were to shoot down all of our GPS and communications satellites, given that it takes about three months to launch a single satellite right now, our military, financial, and commercial infrastructure would completely collapse before single soldier ever set foot on our Shores. We would be blind, deaf, dumb, and completely defenseless. People severely underestimate how reliant we are on space for every aspect of society. --- "History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz |
| Topic | Cats have personalities; dogs do not. |
| s0nicfan 05/17/19 1:57:00 PM #3 | You've never actually seen a dog in person, have you? --- "History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz |
| Topic | SATs to assign "adversity score" to reflect social backgrounds |
| s0nicfan 05/17/19 1:53:31 PM #163 | COVxy posted... Kyle1022 posted...Don't have Facebook anymore so no idea and not really relevant to my point I mean the drop out rate for university is over 50%. Statistically, that number is much higher if you're low income (link below) - only about 5% of low income students actually finish. Outside of making college easier (which holy shit isn't that the worst idea ever), shoving poor kids into top universities is statistically almost guaranteed the saddle them with tens of thousands of dollars of debt with no degree to show for it. If you're really, truly concerned about getting kids from poor families out of the hole they're in and moving up the socioeconomic ladder, giving them an oppression score and boosting their chances of getting into the top schools in the country is going to objectively destroy far more people than it helps. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2018/06/08/why-do-so-many-students-drop-out-of-college-and-what-can-be-done-about-it/ --- "History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz |
| Topic | AOC wrecking this corrupt Gilead pharma executive |
| s0nicfan 05/17/19 1:44:27 PM #22 | The US government has the legal right to rescind a patent if they believe the product/idea/whatever that is patented represents a pressing public need. So we have checks and balances for this sort of crap. We just don't use them. --- "History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz |
| Topic | "We need a Space Force to defend ourselves from Space Pirates" |
| s0nicfan 05/17/19 1:42:19 PM #12 | We absolutely need a space force, but Ted Cruz needs to shut up before he hurts himself trying to think too hard. --- "History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz |
| Topic | Reminder that Kill La Kill cheated us out of the Rematch of the Century Spoilers |
| s0nicfan 05/17/19 1:00:05 PM #2 | Sanageyama is the Yamcha of the series. --- "History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz |
| Topic | *REVIEW* Paw Patrol: Mighty Pups: Cartoon canines in fascistic mission |
| s0nicfan 05/17/19 12:41:47 PM #2 | I wasn't going to read the article, but then I saw the tagline: Review: An apawlling attempt to normalise state-sponsored thuggery --- "History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz |
| Topic | How will be Carrie Fisher be in Star Wars Episode IX? |
| s0nicfan 05/17/19 12:39:40 PM #25 | Jagr_68 posted... s0nicfan posted...I'm assuming they'll play off the What do you think he should do with Leia, if not what I suggested? I figured that was a good compromise, but if you really think itll destroy the main canon that badly what would the alternative be? --- "History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz |
| Topic | Buying a coffee maker is stupid |
| s0nicfan 05/17/19 12:32:59 PM #5 | KoolLaidMan posted... I don't care what people say, steeping coffee is just about as good as drip made coffee.. I mean... cold brew coffee is literally just steeping coffee overnight, so I don't know if people really still consider steeping "inferior" --- "History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz |
| Topic | How will be Carrie Fisher be in Star Wars Episode IX? |
| s0nicfan 05/17/19 12:31:43 PM #21 | Shablagoo posted... s0nicfan posted...I'm assuming they'll play off the Which is easy - have someone radio about an attack on one of the planets and name her as a casualty. No need to show it happen, but everyone gets to react to the news. --- "History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz |
| Topic | What would you recommend to watch on Netflix? |
| s0nicfan 05/17/19 12:30:59 PM #4 | Jim and Andy - the Jim Carrey documentary about the filming of the Andy Kaufman biopic Love, Death & Robots - a bunch of scifi short stories of varying quality The Ballad of Buster Skruggs - a bunch of western short stories of varying quality --- "History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz |
| Topic | Starting a new career in middle ages |
| s0nicfan 05/17/19 12:26:22 PM #6 | You're kind of fucked this far in because of your pension. Not a lot of companies do pensions anymore and you're way behind on starting a 401K. Your best bet is a lateral move within education (adminstration, finance, child study team, etc) so you can stay in the school system and keep that pension alive. --- "History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz |
| Topic | How will be Carrie Fisher be in Star Wars Episode IX? |
| s0nicfan 05/17/19 12:24:43 PM #18 | I'm assuming they'll play off the --- "History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz |
| Topic | Congress should lock up everyone protecting trump |
| s0nicfan 05/17/19 12:20:00 PM #2 | Congress HAS access to the full Mueller report sans like 20 individual names. They've had access since it was released. They're refusing to look at it because they want to bitch about not having it. EDIT: Even CNN confirms https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/10/politics/democrats-republicans-mueller-report/index.html None of the six Democrats who have been provided access to a less-redacted version of special counsel Robert Mueller's report have gone to the Justice Department to read it, according to a source familiar with the matter. EDIT X2: Less reliable source, but this covers how much is unredacted in the version mentioned above: https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/05/mueller-report-volume-ii-available-top-congressional-democrats/ As Congressional Democrats prepare to hold attorney general William Barr in contempt over his supposed lack of transparency, its worth remembering that he has made available to top Democrats the entirety of volume II of the Mueller report, save for two full and seven partial lines, which were redacted to protect grand jury secrecy in keeping with federal law. --- "History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz |
| Topic | Saw series reboot to be written and executive produced by Chris Rock |
| s0nicfan 05/17/19 10:41:30 AM #15 | fate311 posted... s0nicfan posted...I hope they go back to the traps being designed to help redeem people instead of the "you're going to die horribly no matter what you do" traps from the later movies. I mean, I get that there's a story reason. I just found the traps more interesting when there was a chance of escape. When you know they're going to die no matter what, there attempts at solving the puzzle / escaping just becomes torture porn and it's just less interesting. --- "History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz |
| Topic | Robert Pattinson is the new Batma |
| s0nicfan 05/16/19 9:08:42 PM #15 | Doom_Art posted... I can see it --- "History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz |
| Topic | Did peeps hate THE BIG BANG THEORY cos it portrayed them as Chad-Lite? |
| s0nicfan 05/16/19 9:08:01 PM #4 | RoboLaserGandhi posted... No it's the obnoxious laugh tracks and the forced references. This. That show is The Emperor's New Clothes of sitcom. People who don't understand what the characters are saying laugh because the laugh track says it's supposed to be funny, and people who do get what they're saying laugh because somebody said something nerdy, but if you break down the actual jokes in the show they're just not funny. --- "History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz |
| Topic | Joker script has leaked (possible spoilers enter at your own risk) |
| s0nicfan 05/16/19 7:19:39 PM #35 | The Great Muta 22 posted... Jagermeister513 posted...Why The Joker Movie Represents Trump's America The Mary Sue is a website... --- "History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz |
| Topic | Joker script has leaked (possible spoilers enter at your own risk) |
| s0nicfan 05/16/19 5:58:17 PM #16 | JamesVanDerBeek posted... Tyranthraxus posted...but the joker has never really been a sexually oriented character, I also don't think that it'll be particularly sexual. If I had to guess, going by the trailer, it will be more of a "nice guy who gets his ass kicked by the world puts all his hope into a girl that ends up using him, and that's what finally breaks him" sort of thing. It will be less about the relationship and more about him giving up on the idea that there is anything good in the world. --- "History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz |
| Topic | Joker script has leaked (possible spoilers enter at your own risk) |
| s0nicfan 05/16/19 5:50:08 PM #12 | Questionmarktarius posted... In before reviews full of "this isn't Cesar Romero's Joker" I expect you'll be able to tell the comics fans from the non fans by whether they compare this more against The Dark Knight or The Killing Joke. --- "History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz |
| Topic | SATs to assign "adversity score" to reflect social backgrounds |
| s0nicfan 05/16/19 5:48:11 PM #102 | BilalPowell posted... Do they really need that and affirmative action? Minorities are already held to lower standards and now those lower standards are being weighted. I actually think, all things considered, that this would be a far less controversial thing if it were explicitly proposed as a replacement for affirmative action, if only because it is designed to look at socioeconomic status and not skin color. --- "History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz |
| Topic | Joker script has leaked (possible spoilers enter at your own risk) |
| s0nicfan 05/16/19 5:46:57 PM #7 | How quickly people forget that the joker paralyzed Barbara Gordon, stripped her naked, and took all sorts of revealing pictures for the sole purpose of stripping her dad naked and running him through a carnival ride filled with those pictures over and over just to try and break him. --- "History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz |
| Topic | Islam and the abortion debate |
| s0nicfan 05/16/19 5:27:35 PM #11 | Shablagoo posted... *spouses, not parents man. Theyre referring to physical/mental inability to raise a child when they say both spouses (again, spouses i.e. not some rapist and their victim) Which is a problem for spousal rape. A husband decides he wants a kid, but the woman doesn't. They can't use contraception or pull out unless they both approve, she requires multiple witnesses to report a rape, and after 40 days she can't abort unless it's literally killing her without her husband's approval. EDIT: But as others have said, they're borrowing the word because Christianity doesn't have a specific word for a theocratic government like Islam does. --- "History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz |
| Topic | Islam and the abortion debate |
| s0nicfan 05/16/19 5:01:11 PM #2 | Shablagoo posted... https://1pjhft3ggnei4el40qfi16ch-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/AbortionIG.jpg According to that infographic rape abortions require the approval of both parents and abortion is otherwise not at all permitted especially not for financial reasons. --- "History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz |
| Topic | SATs to assign "adversity score" to reflect social backgrounds |
| s0nicfan 05/16/19 3:08:41 PM #46 | Fam_Fam posted... this is ZERO effect on the SAT scores, people. From the article, quoted directly from the Yale under graduate admissions director: "This (adversity score) is literally affecting every application we look at," Quinlan told the Journal. "It has been a part of the success story to help diversify our freshman class." " it doesn't change the number" doesn't actually get at the problem people are having. There is evidence that it is changing how that number is interpreted, and that is the problem. --- "History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz |
| Topic | SATs to assign "adversity score" to reflect social backgrounds |
| s0nicfan 05/16/19 3:04:37 PM #42 | King_Hellebuyck posted... Those scores are still equal. Then their social scores are unequal. I dont understand the point of this rhetoric. Colleges have another metric they can decide to use, one that theyve been asking for from the sounds of it. The purpose of the SAT is to evaluate how much somebody knows so that colleges can compare people who may have come from radically different education backgrounds. That's literally what standardized testing is. The point of the rhetoric is that if it any point you start factoring the objective level of knowledge they have against their upbringing, it ruins the purpose of having a straight score that evaluates how much they know. Everything else about the application process is meant to capture those other variables. Which is better to a University: a higher SAT score from a better social standing, or slightly lower score from a much worse social standing? If the answer to that question isn't objectively the same at every University, then the subjective effect is pretty clear. --- "History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz |
| Topic | SATs to assign "adversity score" to reflect social backgrounds |
| s0nicfan 05/16/19 2:48:07 PM #35 | King_Hellebuyck posted... s0nicfan posted...King_Hellebuyck posted...s0nicfan posted...DarkRoast posted...Victimization chic has now reached a point where we literally assign victimization scores to people. Right now if two people have a 1200, those are considered equal scores. Under this new system, if two people have a 1200 but different social scores, are those scores still considered equal? What if a person has a higher score but a significantly better social standing, is it still a better score than somebody with a lower score but a significantly lower social standing? You are perfectly free to claim that this is just more data colleges have access to, although I would even disagree with that statement because the type of information being used by the SAT is information that is already available on college applications. That doesn't mean it doesn't apply subjectivity to what used to be literally comparing two numbers for which one is larger. --- "History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz |
| Topic | SATs to assign "adversity score" to reflect social backgrounds |
| s0nicfan 05/16/19 2:38:47 PM #27 | King_Hellebuyck posted... s0nicfan posted...DarkRoast posted...Victimization chic has now reached a point where we literally assign victimization scores to people. I'm aware. It adds a layer of subjective interpretation to them, though. Do you support this addition? --- "History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz |
| Topic | SATs to assign "adversity score" to reflect social backgrounds |
| s0nicfan 05/16/19 2:34:02 PM #22 | AlephZero posted... s0nicfan posted...Take that away, and you've basically made it impossible to justify why one person was picked over another from a purely merit-based perspective. That's a dumb fucking goal. --- "History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz |
| Topic | SATs to assign "adversity score" to reflect social backgrounds |
| s0nicfan 05/16/19 2:32:25 PM #19 | DarkRoast posted... Victimization chic has now reached a point where we literally assign victimization scores to people. Which, like... if a university wants to do that based on application answers, that's one thing, but the SAT is literally supposed to be the objective evaluation portion of that subjective application process. It's the one place where you're supposed to be able to compare 2 people objectively in terms of what they actually know. Take that away, and you've basically made it impossible to justify why one person was picked over another from a purely merit-based perspective. --- "History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz |
| Topic | SATs to assign "adversity score" to reflect social backgrounds |
| s0nicfan 05/16/19 2:18:03 PM #14 | joe40001 posted... Is it something that is separate or does it mess up the actual score? It's a modifier so when a school sees a shitty SAT score they can go "oh, but this person has 10 victim points so we should really give them a consideration bump" --- "History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz |
| Topic | SATs to assign "adversity score" to reflect social backgrounds |
| s0nicfan 05/16/19 2:13:45 PM #2 | What a dumb fucking decision. --- "History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz |
| Topic | Saw series reboot to be written and executive produced by Chris Rock |
| s0nicfan 05/16/19 12:51:14 PM #4 | I hope they go back to the traps being designed to help redeem people instead of the "you're going to die horribly no matter what you do" traps from the later movies. --- "History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz |
| Topic | Is Heavy Rain worth $10 on the Epic Game Store? It's on sale |
| s0nicfan 05/16/19 12:26:20 PM #17 | vocedelmorte posted... s0nicfan posted...vocedelmorte posted...s0nicfan posted...CruelBuffalo posted...What about Detroit for $29? You liking them doesn't make them objectively good. Flat characters, out-of-nowhere twists, unusual pacing, and inconsistent acting and writing are all things you can objectively critique even if you happen to enjoy "guy maybe killed someone mystery that turns into lolwacky aztec supernatural shenanigans in the last hour" stories. --- "History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz |
| Topic | Is Heavy Rain worth $10 on the Epic Game Store? It's on sale |
| s0nicfan 05/16/19 12:19:34 PM #12 | vocedelmorte posted... s0nicfan posted...CruelBuffalo posted...What about Detroit for $29? What's not to understand? He makes one very specific type of game that's more of an interactive story that usually has mediocre plots with ridiculous twists and terrible endings. --- "History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz |
| Topic | Is Heavy Rain worth $10 on the Epic Game Store? It's on sale |
| s0nicfan 05/16/19 12:11:09 PM #5 | CruelBuffalo posted... What about Detroit for $29? No David Cage game is worth $30 --- "History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz |
| Topic | How do you feel about internet censorship? |
| s0nicfan 05/16/19 11:58:08 AM #6 | Out of curiosity, TC, why not set up your own portfolio website? It's not hard, and if you're actually doing art professionally it's a much better look than "check me out of tumblr". --- "History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz |
| Topic | Lucifer season 4 |
| s0nicfan 05/16/19 11:54:35 AM #12 | Does it ever start to get like the comics, or does it continue to do its own thing? --- "History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz |
| Topic | How do you feel about internet censorship? |
| s0nicfan 05/16/19 11:34:51 AM #4 | It's like in the 90s when Christian conservative soccer moms were protesting outside of Walmart because they had rap music in their CD section without a big enough warning sticker on it. --- "History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz |
| Topic | Why are we here? |
| s0nicfan 05/16/19 10:13:17 AM #3 | To pass the butter --- "History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz |
| Topic | going positive kd with 10 plus kills in mordhau feels good man |
| s0nicfan 05/16/19 10:09:52 AM #2 |  --- "History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz |
| Topic | What's the best way to get Netflix on my non-smart TV? |
| s0nicfan 05/16/19 9:19:18 AM #4 | gatorsPENSbucs posted... Can get a cheap $15 streaming device. Roku, fire stick, whatever there is. --- "History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz |
| Topic | Uber Drivers Are Not Employees, National Relations Board Rules. |
| s0nicfan 05/15/19 11:06:23 PM #3 | One thing I've never understood, is that as I understand it the reason they can be drivers without having a special license like taxi drivers is explicitly because Uber is set up more like a matchmaking service than a transport company. If Uber drivers were somehow able to prove in court that they were employees of the company, wouldn't they lose their immunity and have to just become taxi drivers? --- "History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz |
| Topic | Trump administration - sweeping new immigration system MERIT BASED admissions |
| s0nicfan 05/15/19 10:05:53 PM #5 | UnfairRepresent posted... At face value this makes perfect sense to me They're basically copying the Canadian system, but with additional checks to make sure that they don't get immigrants just from one place. The Trump administration also said it has considered other similar immigration systems. When Canada implemented a merit-based system, it largely resulted in a pooling of immigrants from East Asia and the Indian subcontinent. To avoid pooling, the White House said it would add points to immigrant candidates from under-represented countries, but it would not impose caps on certain countries. --- "History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz |
| Topic | Trump administration - sweeping new immigration system MERIT BASED admissions |
| s0nicfan 05/15/19 10:01:59 PM #2 | The move would more than quadruple the number of immigrants admitted because of their work-related skills, while dramatically slashing the number of immigrants admitted because of family ties. Currently, approximately 12 percent of immigrants are admitted based on employment and skills, while 66 percent are admitted based on family connections. --- "History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz |
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